Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 1 2026 04:44pm)

Eth ariocs will give the most damage, on a char who already has wildly overkill amounts of damage.

An eth fort tmaul setup is getting ~480 base weapon damage added to echoing strikes and +20% DS (72% ds / 29% crit = 80.12%) and about 20-25% off-weapon %ed from strength on maul class
Swapping in obsession/bk/laying gets you ~102 base damage and +640 skill damage from +4 skills (52% ds / 30% crit = 66.4%) as well as +350% off-weapon %ed vs demons and another +56% offweapon %ed from the skill and mastery and consume. And then it also gets +4 bind demon / demonic mastery / hex siphon / psychic ward / etc
So the tmaul has 480 damage +20% ds and obsession has 742 and a gorillion upsides from all its +resists, +life, +fcr, +4 skills, +mf.

Then the linked build is also utterly nanners and poorly thought out because its not just low resists, but dumping points into strength on a char with overkill dps and only has 1 point blood oath, when 20 hard points in blood oath gives a 43% all damage taken reduction (including elemental)



also this but I got even faster than the echoing strike build by just being a member of the blood boil master race

Quote (Goomshill @ Mar 1 2026 04:31pm)

well first dump the fort tmaul and instead use an obsession archon staff, which is +4 skills / 65 fcr / 70 resists / 25 max life / 30 mf, which opens you up to have an even higher damage output build because you sacrifice less slots for FCR and the damage scales mostly with +skills. In that same setup you could use laying of hands and 2x BK rings instead of trangs gloves, soj & fcr ring, because with a 65% fcr staff all it takes is any 20-30% ars meph + 20% arach + 20% helm, the fcr roll on meph doesn't matter.

Quote (xbSloppyco @ Mar 1 2026 06:29pm)

Would the obsession staff be better still than adding the additional +critical strike from insight when doing Uber trist